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Jeremy Scott, The Demotic Voice in Contemporary British Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
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Guest Lecture by Dr. David Britain
4th June 2009

The Centre for Language & Linguistics Studies is pleased to announce a Guest Lecture by Dr. David Britain of the Department of Languages and Linguistics, University of Essex, which will take place on Thursday, 4th June at 5.15pm in Grimond Lecture 2. A drinks reception will take place afterwards in the foyer.

Dr. Britain will talk on the "Variation and change in hiatus resolution in southern British English".

Traditional varieties of south-eastern English have a very complex system for resolving hiatus, complex largely because of the residues of a number of independent changes that took place at different points in its history. Systematic change is afoot, however, to this pretty complex system. Evidence will be presented to show that the hiatus resolution system is gradually being simplified. Here, Dr. Britain examines the sociogeographical origins of this change, and presents some possible explanations for its structure and direction.

All are most welcome to attend. .

CLLS Inaugural Lecture and Launch,
28 February 2008

Dr Jon Mills (Centre for Language and Linguistic Studies), delivered a lecture entitled 'Genocide and Ethnocide: The Suppression of the Cornish Language'.